2023–24 Australian women's summer

[SillyCowCorner1]

She’s gone. That should be the end of the match.
93 in 53 needed

 

[ataraxia]

Heh I checked the scoreboard, saw WI were 1 down after 11 overs and assumed Matthews had failed.

Matthews: 310 runs in the series
Taylor: 70 runs
Rest of WI: 50 runs

Matthews has also snared 5 wickets.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Heh I checked the scoreboard, saw WI were 1 down after 11 overs and assumed Matthews had failed.

Matthews: 310 runs in the series
Taylor: 70 runs
Rest of WI: 50 runs

Matthews has also snared 5 wickets.

Truly the greatest all-rounder that this game has never seen.

 

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Just an insane series for Matthews. She's had a few performances like that against NZ in the past, and I have to admit I enjoyed seeing her do it to someone else.

 

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Weber WBBL

She's coming! Cannot wait to see Chamari Athapaththu in the lime green this year ⚡ #WBBL09

www.facebook.com

Finally.

 

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Looking forward to the WBBL starting tonight. As always, the Sixers look ridiculously stacked on paper, but would love to see some solo wrecking-ball efforts by Matthews (Renegades) and Chamari (Thunder).

 

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Great to see Lanning back and playing so well.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Interesting to see Gardner captaning the Sixers in the absence of Perry when Healy is just coming off leading Australia

 

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Oof, this young bowler Illingworth looks sharp.

And picks up a wicket in her first over.

 

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That was a fun game to watch and a good finish (last ball was probably a wide, though...)

Good way to kick off the tournament.

 

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Devine seems to play more of these knocks for franchises than she does for NZ these days.

 

[Spark]

Bizarre result in the WBBL given that the Stars batting order isn't exactly full of mugs

 

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Yeah, astonishing.

 

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Grace Harris is ridiculous. The cleanest hitter I've seen in women's cricket, I reckon.

 

[Spark]

Hitting the ball so hard she broke her bat lol

 

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Chamari with a casual 52 and 3-20 in her first game for the Thunder. Can't understand why it took so long for someone to sign her.

 

[tony p]

Jade Allen played for the Sydney Sixers today.
Didn't bowl.
Batted No 11, faced 3 balls, 3no.
They used 6 bowlers as well.
Why is she in the team.?

 

[mackembhoy]

Amazing this

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1715939999139479874

 

[social]

Grace Harris is ridiculous. The cleanest hitter I've seen in women's cricket, I reckon.

I say this as a compliment

She hits the ball like a man

Will be interesting to see where women’s cricket goes

My money is on more power hitters as the game attracts better athletes while bowling will be dominated by spinners as 99.9% of ladies are simply not physically capable of bowling quickly at all so will get smashed

 

[TheJediBrah]

bowling will be dominated by spinners as 99.9% of ladies are simply not physically capable of bowling quickly at all so will get smashed

You don't think the difference in bowling speeds is made up for by a commensurate difference in reaction times?

Women spinners also tend to bowl a lot slower than mens as well btw